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Minor earthquake, 3.02 mag was detected near Culebra in Puerto Rico


Earthquake location 18.472S, -65.3748WA minor earthquake with magnitude 3.02 (ml/mb) was reported 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Culebra in Puerto Rico on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, -65.3748° West, 18.472° North, depth 55 km. Id of earthquake: pr2018081004. Event ids that are associated: pr2018081004. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 55 km (34 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 01:31:19 / 1:31 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/03/18 / 2018-03-22 05:31:19 / March 22, 2018 @ 5:31 am.

Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Guaynabo, Cataño, San Juan (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from San Juan (c. 418 100 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Carolina (c. 170 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Caguas (c. 86 800 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Guaynabo (c. 81 400 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Trujillo Alto (c. 54 200 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nineteen, in the past 30 days sixty-one and in the last 365 days three hundred and seventy-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km NNW of Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.02 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -65.3748° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.472° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 55 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km NNW of Culebra, Puerto Rico Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-03-22 05:31:19 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-03-22 07:47:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset -240 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 140 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network pr The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,pr, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 4 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.5776 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.51 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 329 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type md The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID pr2018081004 Id of event.
Event Code 2018081004 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,pr2018081004, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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